“Welcome to the Elon Musk presidency,” wrote Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia. Congress is careening toward a government shutdown after U.S. President-elect Trump, egged on by billionaire Elon Musk—who helped bankroll Trump’s reelection campaign and is slated to help oversee cuts to government spending and regulation in the new administration—torpedoed a federal spending bill that would have kept the government […]
“Nothing like a couple billionaires wreaking havoc on working families right before the holidays,” said Rep. Mark Pocan. U.S. President Trump and his allies, including billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are blowing up bipartisan efforts to prevent a government shutdown that could begin this weekend with statements opposing a proposed stopgap measure. “Currently reading the 1,547-page […]
“Instead of fighting the rising cost of healthcare, gas, or groceries, this Congress prioritized rewarding the wealthy and well-connected military-industrial complex,” said Defense Spending Reduction Caucus co-chairs. Despite the Pentagon’s repeated failures to pass audits and various alarming policies, 81 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted with 200 Republicans on Wednesday to advance a $883.7 […]
“We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while half a million Americans are homeless and children go hungry,” Sen. Bernie Sanders writes in a new op-ed. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday announced his opposition to an annual military policy bill that would authorize a Pentagon budget of nearly $850 billion, a […]